Koala Sampler Basic Tutorial 

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I can’t decide between this guy and Pete Bonnington.

I know his brother Numeric, just talks in numbers.

Your comment just nudged me to watch the entirety of the explainer. Bloody brilliant explainer and great nudge!

This isn't about you.

Were the samplers back then based on structures similar to the ASR-10 or MPC? Or did you design something strictly for software. I remember software based production was pretty rough even in the 2000s with Reason series and FL studios. We came such a long way!

@@MiC-T shut up asshole let the man enjoy life

@@MiC-T It's ALL about you. madi droppin hot warez.

Can you tell me more. Forget these clowns I'm interested. They don't understand what it mean pouring your soul for X amount of times in products.

Mucho apreciado

I'm from the future, you got your wish in a way haha

​@@MK-vi2cmIn which way? (I'm living in the past.)

@michael_ The current firmware for the SP-404MKII has built in integration for the Koala sampler. It makes the 404 an even more formidable piece of hardware by introducing this integration

@@MK-vi2cm Wow, that’s neat! Thanks for answering

For real this app is so impressive. It's crazy what you can do. It's like Yakback on steroids but you can make whole orchestrations just using your voice or whatever samples you want. So easy to use and also has a lot of depth under the simple looking UI.

Yea so I've been using this app for a couple months and youtube just decided to say "someone liked your comment" on this video so update. Yea still loving this app and using it regularly. I made some beats with it, exported sample packs (though I'm still trying to figure out if I am exporting correctly because it seems like the modifications I made in app didn't transfer to the Zip files I sent), I have composed songs on here, recorded ideas on the fly, got a fairly firm grasp of the concepts that in things like Ableton for a newcomer seem overwhelming much in the way of advanced Photoshop. Anyways I think this is a fantastic on the go and at home creation tool to have on hand. One thing I'd really appreciate is being able to change the themes or have multiple options as occasionally the standard reddish theme can be a tad boring and I like to change themes on everything. Also with exporting songs I've composed it's carried over all my compositions correctly including those from performance mode. There is a remarkably feature dense file menu features list in this deceptively simple sampler. Still recommend it 100% and it came recommended by a friend of mine who is a popular lofi hip hop producer so I've been happy with this app and its been affixed to my home screen to get out quick ideas and experiment with loops and sound concepts at the moment I think of it.

It’s great but it’s basically the teenage engineering pocket operator workflow I think. It’s good.

@@deldia You're right - but that's very impressive, given this is only about 1/20th of the price. Crazy to think that there was no way you could have carried around a device with this capability in your pocket (short of something like an SP-303) even 15 years ago.

The piano roll grid is a must. So is the chopper.

agree, this is all new to me and I love the simplicity of Koala.

Why do you prefer using this to impc?

The workflow just works better for me and it feels like the app developer really cares about making it the best pure sampler on iOS.

Haha!! For the time being, price is staying put! I really want to make it affordable for as many people as possible... I do like money (a lot), but I also LOVE helping people making music, and hearing what people make with my instruments!!!

Your totally right man. I’d easily pay £9.99 for this app. Should also think about selling custom skins and soundpacks 🎧

What daw do you use?

Hi KeezOfLife! How is your iOSmusic/video path traveling? Anything you like to share? Do you have an info channel or blog?

Yes, this would be utterly useful!

Parameter per step change?

this feature has been implemented in the meantime: double tapping a sequence brings up a piano roll! note: this feature comes with the samurai mode IAP ($3.99 at the time of writing this). also included are two more useful functions: timestretch and auto-chop.

Do you only talk in buzzwords?

do you take Kenya-Fit classes or CrossFit?

You need the samurai addon to do that - try double tapping a sequence square

oh, and two more things: I’d love to be able to turn quantize off, or if that’s not possible, at least have the ability to adjust it. I’d love a retrigger feature to be able to repeat the pad at a select rate.

@@nolasousaphone Ah, to turn quantize off, tap the bpm/metro box, and it should give you a few more options (including a toggle for quantize)

Both those things would be awesome, just have to work out how to squeeze everything in!

thanks man!!

Oh sweet! Happy 30th!!

Are you using an iPad mini in this video?

Is there a way trigger samples without needing to hold them? As if there was an infinite release

You should be able to do that no problem - the max sample length is difficult to define because it depends on your device but it’s over 15 minutes for even a $25 phone from the supermarket

One shot is now in there, quantise has been in there from the beginning - if you tap the bpm it should reveal a menu with quantisation and swing controls

I was up early this morning, saying I wanted a new MPC for $699... Then I saw this... One of my best $5 purchases ever!! I also have the KO-33, which is awesome BUT doesn't have the chromatic scales which makes it a pain for melodies. Plus, other issues... So far this is dope and $90 cheaper... More money for the munchies...

fosch dont think so... yet!

Agree 100

Best $4 I’ve spent in lieu of buying a PO. Step sequencer would be nice for koala 2!

You kinda can

That's what I'm using it for. Great app 👍

Samurai has timestretch which is what you’re looking for

Yes! Most definitely need this ability

If ifs and buts were candies and nuts, we’d all have a merry Christmas

It's in the app now, the Stretch button

You can definitely import wavs and add a background image but the number of pads on screen is fixed at 16, and you can’t label samples. I don’t want to put pad labels because it will overwhelm the already slightly busy interface. You do get to see the waveforms though so hopefully that provides a good mnemonic for what sample is on it

Cuckoo !! thanks for your tutorials